Stability of delay equations

Abstract

For a large class of nonautonomous linear delay equations with distributed delay, we obtain the equivalence of hyperbolicity, with the existence of an exponential dichotomy, and Ulam–Hyers stability. In particular, for linear equations with constant or periodic coefficients and with a simple spectrum these two properties are equivalent. We also show that any linear delay equation with an exponential dichotomy and its sufficiently small Lipschitz perturbations are Ulam–Hyers stable.